The Liberals must find their sweet spot

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Published: 8Apr2013

(Antonia Maioni, Associate professor at McGill) Poor Mackenzie King. Canada's longest-serving prime minister, mysterious and misunderstood, was haunted by the spectre of the once-great British Liberal Party, squeezed out between the left and right. And now, almost 65 years after he stepped down, King's worst nightmare has almost come to pass: For the first time in Canadian history, a Liberal convention will choose the leader of a third party in the House of Commons…